From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 26 23:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF37514C8A for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (p061.asi.euronet.nl [194.134.123.61]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12516 from for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:59:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA52942 for emulation@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:38:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by scones.sup.scc.nl with netnews for emulation@FreeBSD.ORG (emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) To: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:38:10 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <36FC8AE2.B6F94889@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: Problems getting Sybase DB running Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Schien wrote: > 1. With the help of rpm2cpio I unpacked the rpm-package: > rpm2cpio sybase.rpm | cpio -ivdum > (direct use of rpm -i (Marcel Moolenar's port) > failed with the error message > 'failed to create /var/tmp/xxxx'. Of course, /var/tmp > exists and there are no permission or space problems. I checked this) What is important, is that rpm runs scripts in a chroot'd environment. The problem may be that you don't have /compat/linux/var/tmp. If you downloaded the linux-base port after March 23, then that is the case. My mistake. I'll update the port. marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message